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TTTF, ATLANTA PEORGIAN AND NEWS.
Racehorses Can’t Talk, but They Are Both Good and Bad Actors at Various Times
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H. F. Smith, of Nashville, Given
Credit for Rapid Growth of
the Game in Dixie.
By (Turk Evans.
C -^HIOAQO, Dec. 19 -Long nr
cles are constantly being writ-
ten concerning the brilliant
deeds of our greatest golfers, but a
few lines are usually conFblered suf
ficient for the acts of the officials
who provide the scene and the set
ting for all the spectacular golf that
is played. To the successful forma-
* tion of golf associations and the car
rying through of tournaments are
devoted the executive ability and un- :
tiring devotion of many men; often \
. they are men of large affairs wh
give freely their time and knowledg
for the benefit of the younger men
Conspicuous among men of this i
lass is H. F. Smith, of Nashville,
president of the Southern Golf As ,
sooiation, and one of the directors of
the W. G. A. Mr. Smith has been
largely responsible for the building ,
up of the S. (I. A., of which he has
been continuously president since
1904, and for the widespread Inter
est and constant increase in golf play
ing throughout the Southern States.
In no part of the country is inter
est in golf growing more rapidly than
in the South. This is the more re
markable because golf playing was j
general in the Fast and Middle West
long before it was taken up in the
South. Yet it is interesting to know
in this connection that a golf club
with officers, and clubhouse existed
at Charleston, S. C., as rly as Oc
tober, 1794. 1 do not know how long
this lasted or how complete the gap
between this club and these later
ones of which we know, hut for many
years there were few golf clubs and
but little* interest in the game in the
Sotfth
When Mr. Smith became president
of the S. (1. A. it was a very small
organization compared with the
mammoth association of to-day, and
the association is so convinced that
Mr Smith is indispensable that it
will not permit him to resign.
Mr. Smith is also president of the
Tennessee Golf Association, a nour
ishing little organization, and of the
new Nashville Golf and Country Club
that is plannl.** a beautiful course on
the historic Belle Mead Farm. Hut
Mr. Smith's labors for golf have not
been confined to the Southern States;
for years he served on the directorate
of the W. Ci. A., was vice president
several years and in 1910 he was
elected president to succeed C. F.
Thompson. His administration was
one of the most successful in the his
tory of the organization For 1914
he will continue to serve the \\\ G. A.
as director.
Mr Smith plays a very good game
of golf himself, although he learned
it rather ’ate in life Some years ago
he won the championship of the Na
tional Freight Traffic Men's Associa
tion.
Boston Braves Play
Crackers in March
BOSTON. Dec 19. Plans of the
spring training trip of the Pilgrims
have been practically arrange*) by
Manager George Stallings and Secretary
Herman .Nickerson
The Pilgrims will gather at the train
ing grounds in Macon. Ga . and start
work n March 1 The players will
have over two weeks of solid practice
and then will play a series of exhibi
tion games, starting on March 12.
These games will gradually bring the
team North.
Manager Stallings has arranged the
following exhibition games and more
will be added t * * the schedule later:
Mar* b ‘1 and 22 Newark at Macon.
March and 2R Atlanta at Atlanta.
March and SI Atlanta at Macon.
AitII 6 and 7 Buffalo at Charlotte.
N c.
April 8 and 9 Baltimore at Baltimore
April 10 and 11 Washington at
Washington.
SHARKEY HELD BY POLICE.
NEW YORK. Dec 19.—Tom Sharkey,
the former heavyweight pugilist, whose
Fourteenth street saloon was raided
la at night by the police was to-day held
for further examination next Tuesday
before Magistrate House on the charge
of maintaining a disorderly house His
manager and head waiter were also
’ held.
BOXING
News of the Ring Game.
Frank Baker and “Kid" Young may
meet in a private bout on January 15.
Baker boxes Jeff Gaffney at Savannah
Christmas Day and will leave for At
lanta Immediately after the bout.
A oung and Baker have agreed to post
forfeits Saturday binding the match.
'Hie boys have agreed to battle for a
1100 side bet.
• * •
Baker, however, insists that the en
tire side bet he posted Saturday. He
wants to be sure that Young does not
run out of the scrap, and says It is up
to the Young to either put up the money
or admit that he doesn't warn any of
his game Baker claims he will make
any weight satisfactory to Young.
• • •
otto Kohler, the Cleveland welter- |
weight who went to Paris for fights a
short time ago. is back In. Ametlca
again. Otto fought one battle in Paris,
ami as he lost the derision, he decided
to return home. Kohler meets Young
Brown in a ten-round go in Brooklyn to
morrow night.
• * m
Willie Ritchie and Tommy Murphy
have again been matched to fight In a
few days we will hear of both Messrs
Ritchie ami Murphy signing for a the
atrical tour.
• * »
Sam Wallach thinks that his brother.
I.each Cross, has everything to lose and
nothing to gain by fighting Bud Ander
son. Wa'lach ran not figure where
l each can gain any rep by heating An
derson again, while if Bud manages to
stick the limit of 20 rounds, many fans
will call Leuch u “has been.”
w • •
To-night in Milwaukee Charlie White
ami Ad Wolgast will settle their long
standing grudge by meeting in a sched
uled ten-round bout. The fight is bound
to he a hard fought one. as the winner
will he hi lin* for a match with the
very best of them, whl'e the loser might
as w ell toss the gloves as far as
getting on with the kingpins of the 13.‘1
pounders. Wolgust rules a 10 to 7 fa
vorite
Johnny Dundee is about the busiest
piece of fighting machinery in the game
to-day. Johnny Is boxing on an average
of twice a month. Yesterday he signed
articles to box Freddie Welsh in a ten-
round set-to at New Orleans on New
Year's Day.
• * »
There Is a great mlx-up of nationali
ties in the Joe Rivera ramp. The cook
is a Jap: Levy his manager, Is a He
brew. Abdul, his trainer, is a Turk,
while his sparring partners. Babe Pi-
cat** und Solly Burns, are Italian and
Irish, respectively.
MUNDY GOES TO WORCESTER.
BOSTON, Dec. 19.—William W
Mur.dv, who played first base for the
I Boston Americans (lut ing part of last
season, was re'eused to the Worces
ter Nc ■ England League club to-day.
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A CHURCH TOO
By Tad Walsh Brothers Sign Contracts
; v• \* vo-I* 4**v '!*•*!* v• *1*
Here's One on Larry McLean
Herzog Selected to
Manage Cincinnati
Team Next Season
Food for Sport Fans
Shafer Through With
Game; McGraw Must
J Get Third Baseman
HEAVYWEIGHTS FIGHT MONDAY.
NEW YORK. Dec 19 Billy Gibson,
local promter, expects a big crowd to
attend his two heavyweight bouts
M%nduy night, Gibson has billed Jim
Flynn to meet George Rodel in one ten-
round battle, while Buttling l/evinsky
Danny Morgan's latest sensation, will
take on Jim Coffey over the same route.
CARDS SELL TWO PITCHERS.
INDIANAPOLIS Dec 19 Pitchers
| Burk and Willis have been sold by
j the St. Louis Nationals to the Ameri
can Association team here.
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Away from High Rents.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 19.—Charles
Herzog, former member of the New
York and Boston (National League)
clubs, will be manager of the Cincin
nati team for the season of 1914. Aft
er a conference with the hoard of di
rectors and a second conference wi n
President August Herrmann and Sec
retary Harry Stephens last night,
Herzog signed a contract as a player
for a year, and then was officially
made manager.
Herzog steps into the position
made "scant by the sale of former
Manager Joe Tinker to the Brooklyn
club. He will play at shortstop, as
did Tinker, and guide the team on
the field. Herzog outlined his ideas
of a winning team to the board of
directors and they were approved
Herzog is 28 and was born in Bal
timore He is a graduate of Mary
land Cniversity. and after a short
minor league exne tence was signed by
Manager McGraw for the New Yo k
team, with which he played in 19'i$
and 1909, He was traded to the Bos
ton (National League) team anu
placed with that club through the
season of 1910 ami about half of the
season *>f 1911. when he was brought
back to New York by a deal made for
him bv McGraw.
The New York leader recently made
a trade for him with Cincinnati n
which the New York club gave Her
zog and* Catcher Hartley for Out
fielder Bob Bescher.
Georgia Basket Ball
Team Plans Games
ATHENS, GA.. Dec. 19.—Manager
Tom Brand, of the university basket
ball five has planned a fine schedule
for the Georgia five. The first inter
collegiate game is to be here January
16, when Auburn comes to Athens for
a game. Two trips are arranged ten
tatively—one through the Carolina*
and one to Augusta and Savannah.
They will play games with Vander
bilt. Tech and other S 1 A A fivesl
alss* Coach Howell Peacock has
Brand, Carter. Peac**. k Crump. Les- I
ter. Rawson, Corlev. Von St rockier, j
Brown and Rothchild working out I
for the team. I
WORRY.
7 am worried," spoke Joe Tinker as
he read the sport page o'er,
For this talk about ten thousand
hones has troubled me full sore.
7 will get ten thousand shekels of
the price they paid for me
'If I sign tit plat/ in Brooklyn far
across the bounding sea.
"But if Herrmann amputates himself
from that amount of dough
‘7 am fearfullest the poor old gent
will not survive the blow
While Mr. Tinker undoubtedly is
flratified to read that he is about to
be handed $10 000, he is also aware
that it is practically impossible to
pay the rent with conversational
money.
"My hands are tied," quoth Mr.
Murphy, who evidently has learned to
run the typewriter with his feet.
As we understand it. Cap Anson s
pension from the National League
will be a more or less pleasant smile.
The N. L. magnates would be per
fectly willing to pension Mr. Anson
if it could be done without going to
any expense.
We never have seer a reliability
run for motor trucks, but we suspect
that it resembles a fight between two
white hopes.
WHY, WALTER!
I feel a shock whene'er I lamp
The all-star team of Matter Camp.
Hlcrcn players true and tried
He picked from all the countryside.
From Fast and West the athletes hail
And only one man comes from YaP>!
— j
We always feel a thrill of pleasure
when we see Walter Camp's All-
American team in print. We know it
will be the last ono we shall see for
a twelvemonth.
Perchance you are aware that i
Messrs. Goulett and Fogler won the
•six-day bike race If you are not, it I
doesn’t make any difference.
It is the opinion oi uoxing experts j
that Bombardier Wells would be a i
successful fighter if the other fellow
would only retrain from hitting him.
—
Some say Mr. Wells has a weak |
jaw and some say he has a weak
stomach, but thfcre is a strong sus
picion that the weakness is in his
backbone.
Amerlcus and Strangler Lewis
have a perfect right to hurl chal
lenges at Frank Gotch, but if they j
io not have a care he may accept. :
One might become interested In 1
the rumor that several Giants are on
the market—that is, one might if one
were in the ivory business
The loaded ball has been expunged
from the game of bowling, but ‘.he -
‘oaded bowler goes on forever.
Turtles Get Stark
For A1 Schweitzer
LOS ANGELES. Dec. 19.—That he
told McGraw to iook for another in - I
fielder for the 1914 season was the j
statement made to-day by Art Siia- ’
fer. star utility m..n of the New York
Giants. Shafer says he has quit base
ball for good. McGraw has traded
Herzog to Cincinnati, and with Sha
fer refusing to play the National
League conqueror is up against it for
a third baseman.
McGraw visited Shafer when the
Giants and White Sox were in this
city and asked him if it was true that .
he had quit baseball for good. Sha
fer said it was, and then McGraw
tried to have him change his rnind.
He offered to make an exception in
Shafer's case and not have him join
the training squad at Marlin.
"I am in business with my father,
taking care of his estate." said Shafer
.to-day. "I am out of baseball for- ,
ever w i
"McGraw offered me a tempting j
salary and every consideration possi- '
ble, but I just think in the long run ;
it would be better for me to remain j
In California. I want it understood j
right now that I am not holding out."
By 0. B. Keeler.
x x tHATEVER may happen to the
\/V/ rest of th'e rather lengthy roll
of Cracker athletes for the
team of 1914, the Walsh brothers are
hooked.
Their contracts were received
Thursday afternoon by President
Callaway.
There still is some doubt around
headquarters as to the division of la
bor by the pair. Their names are Ed
ward M, and James E., but which is
; the catcher and which the infielder
| nobody seems positive, not even Billy
Smith.
* * *
pOUNT CASTRO, the celebrated or-
ator and suds-passer, is claiming
a good deal of credit for the hooking
of the Walsh family.
•Pt’s better to claim the credit be
fore the practice season," said the
Count, sagely. "Then, if they make
! good, you can say, ‘I told you so,’ and
j if they don’t pan out, why, most folks
! will have forgotten by that time who
! tipped the club off to ’em.”
# * *
A S a matter of fact, it was Mike
*■Donlin >\ho slipped Castro r he
hunch, under the mpression that the
i Count was going to operate a Visj-
! ginia League club in the coming sea-
! son.
“Mike says they're a great pair."
said Lou. "They’re kids; just 20 and
21 years old, I understand. And Mike
says they are comers—young and am
bitious and full of the old pep. Char-
ley Grapewine thinks a lot of ’em, too.
And those two birds are pretty w’sv
when it comes to spotting a ball pla>-
er."
So Lou, feeling kindly disposed to
i the Atlanta club—it was before he
’ signed with Chattanooga—and not
having any use at that moment for
the Messrs. Walsh, told Bill Smith
I about the brothers, and Billy decided
to take a chance.
* * *
“T MET one of the boys while I was
* up East.” is Bill’s testimony. “I
didn’t see him working, but I talked
to him, and he looks like a regular
ball player—and talks like one. Of
course, I haven’t any confidence in
this fellow (’astro, you know. H**'s
played ball for me—that is, he drew
a salary from the club, which he
transferred in the way of fines to the
president of the eague. But he’s a
pretty good sort, and some folks think
he knows a ball player when he sees
one. Lou.thinks so, for instance."
* * *
LJ LIRE'S a Stove League yarn about
1 A Long Larry McLean, the cele
brated ex-bonded warehouse.
It's an old one. dating back to t^e
first year of the White Hope craze,
at which time Larry was a member
of the Seattle ball club, out on tha
Coast.
Being several inches better than six
feet long, and husky in proportion.
McLean was exploited by a Seattle
writer as a likely White Hope, and
some pictures were published of him
in boxing poses.
• * •
THE idea caught on, and, not to be
A outdone, a Portland sport writer
began to tout Rube Vickers, a bis
chap, formerly a pitcher for the Ath
letics.
Jimmy Hughes, the exploiter of Mc
Lean, was justlv Indignant.
"That guy’s stealing your stuff." he
told Larry. "What do you think of
it?"
"It’s the limit," Larry agreed.
"Well, now, here’s what you do."
said Larry’s friend. “You just cal*
his bluff. Portland plays here Fri
day. You get a set of boxing glover,
call Vickers into the clubhouse, put
on one pair and throw the others
down in front of him. i.nd dare him
to put ’em on. How do you like that
idea?"
"Fine," said Larry, “but suppose the
blamed cuss puts 'em on?"
Mississippi After
Game With Sewanee
MEMPHIS, TENN.. Dev. 19.
University of Mississippi foot h r
team, just reinstated into the goo*!
graces of the Southern Intercpllegi'-'.’e
Athletic Association, is endeavor.u-
to arrange a football schedule for next
fall.
One af the moves of the manage
ment of that team is to try to stage i
game with Sewanee here in October
If the Tigers will not accept the game
Arkansas will probably be taken on
by Ole Miss.
Bi’ickley Elected
Captain of Harvard
CAMBRIDGE. MASS., Dec. 19.—
Charles E. Brickley, a member of the
last two Harvard football teams, was
elected captain of the 1914 eleven last
night. Walter H. Trumbull, of Salem,
who piayed center this year, was the
other candidate for the captaincy.
In addition tu Brickley and Trum
bull. two players received votes. They
were II. R. Hardwick, said to be the
personal choice of Coach Percy D
Haughton, and F. J. Bradlee.
MEMPHIS, TENN., Dec. 19.—The
Turtles have traded Outfielder A! !
Schweitzer to the Sacramento club
for Infielder Dolly Stark, a Memphis
boy. and formerly a member of the :
Little Rock team.
Dolly is slated to take the place of
Willis Butler at short for the Tur- .
ties in the next campaign.
CHICAGO BOY WINS.
JACKSON. MICH.. Deo. 19 —Tommy
Huge, of Chicago, earned a clean shade
over Billy Shaughr.essy. of Jackson,
here last night in ten fast rounds.
KRAUSE ELECTED CAPTAIN.
MILWAUKEE. Dec. 19 —Bert Krause,
a Junior was elected captain of the
Marquette University football team for
1914 at the annual banquet here last
night.
OUTFIELDER PASKERT SUED.
CLEVELAND. Dec. 19 - George H.
Paskert outfielder of the Philadelphia
National League team, was sued for
$20,000 damges by John Ferry here to-
da\ Paskert. while driving his auto
mobile October 28. struck Ferry.
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